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Tropical storm Debby hit land as it arrived on Florida's Gulf Coast on Tuesday, threatening to dump another round of heavy rains on areas already reeling from flooding, US forecasters said.

Debby, which has been raking the coast with strong winds and rains since the weekend, swept over Steinhatchee in north-central Florida as it headed eastward to the Atlantic Ocean, where it is expected by Friday.

The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Debby was about 35 miles (55 kilometers) northwest of Cedar Key, Florida.

It was packing maximum sustained winds of 40 miles (64 kilometers) per hour, but had speeded up and was now moving toward the east at six miles (nine kilometers) per hour.

Parts of northern Florida were expected to get over two feet (61 centimeters) of rain. The storm also downed trees, upturned catamarans and drowned turtle nests along the Gulf, according to local media.

FORTUNE -- By poaching the head of Audi in the U.S., Nissan Motor may finally have found the key executive to lead the turnaround of Infiniti, the Japanese automaker's perennially lagging luxury division.

Johan de Nysschen, who ran Audi in the U.S. for the last 19 years, was recruited by none other than Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's magnetic CEO. De Nysschen will run Infiniti worldwide from its new Hong Kong headquarters. Not surprisingly, a big part of his mission to make Infiniti relevant in the world's biggest automotive growth market, China.

That Ghosn would pluck somebody for the German automaker is not much of a surprise. "Infiniti has had 'Audi envy' forever," said Michelle Krebs, automotive analyst for Edmunds.com,…